Commentary

Everyone wants to see change, locally and globally, in every sector. But before the change can come and the problems - the economic woes, crime, corruption, and poverty - can be addressed, people must first be willing to embrace a change in their way of thinking....

I have been rather disappointed to hear much of the public reaction to the security guards' beating of the allegedly gay youth at the University of Technology (UTech) recently. I was in a restaurant watching the noonday news on one of our local TV stations when the video was aired publicly.

With the euphoria of collecting my degree from former Prime Minister Edward Seaga, lots of joyous smiles, proud hugs and tons of pictures, one would assume that I was on cloud nine. For one of my friends, the rapture of a one-night stand with his canister that contains his bachelor's degree was just that - a one-night stand.

HURRICANE SANDY and other weather systems that impacted the island this year have exposed weaknesses in the country's environmental governance structure which require serious attention, if only for the purpose of protecting our fragile economy.

The only thing extraordinary about the new Digicel marketing campaign is the extra cash I have been paying for the ordinary $100 credit I have become accustomed to purchasing on a weekly basis as part of my child's allowance.

There are some people who think nothing of cheating the vulnerable and taking advantage of their misery. And Hurricane Sandy has awakened many of those who would seek to gain benefit from a tragedy.

This road (Ensom Avenue) has been in a bad condition for too long. It's terrible, and something needs to be done about it urgently. I just had to spend money to fix my shock absorbers. The potholes have now passed the stage of potholes; they are like craters.

Here is a man who imagined a machine that could take us through time, flying saucers that could bring aliens to earth at speeds faster than light, a vehicle that could get from the earth to the moon, but doubted that a submarine could do anything but cause people to suffocate. It is enough to make you gasp.

Television replays and the use of high-tech camera technology have become part of many sports.

If you were a passenger on a jet moving at the pace, and on the trajectory, of the Jamaican state, you would be pardoned if you thought the captain had taken a snooze as the plane nosedived towards destruction.

THE GOVERNMENT of Jamaica - led by the Bank of Jamaica that acts as regulator of the major financial institutions - needs to take speedy and effective action to implement a government strategy to assist Jamaican financial institutions and affected Jamaican ...

IF THE United States of America was still a white man's land, Mitt Romney would be its president.According to the polls on Tuesday night, Barack Obama lost the white vote.